Hi I'm Grant the Polite Guy and I was homeless for about a year and a half. So much has happened since then. I write here to help bring homeless awareness looking at the world through a homeless person's point of view.

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Bigger BBQ, Need Help Please

Most people that know me say
“Grant you do a great thing!” To tell you the truth I feel guilty sometimes
because, well yes I am always trying to help but I couldn’t do it without the
help of everyone else coming together as a community. Just to give you an idea
I’m going to mention a wonder just wonder person Kitty Art (Facebook
name)

I’m famous for doing my ‘Pie
and Coke’ were I buy a homeless person a meal and just sit and listen while they
eat. I give them a mate to talk too and also sometimes help them to get on their
feet but just talking. When their ready to get on their feet I’m there waiting
with my ‘Pie and Coke’ to help.

Kiity Art called me and I told
her I needed help with my phone (Yes it’s like a computer, haha). Right
away Kitty Art asks me to meet her and starts working on it. Soon later we are
walking to the best pie shop in Brisbane to get pies and coke for ourselves
Kitty Art pays and then puts a $100 on store credit so I can do my ‘Pie and
Coke’ more often. You see up until now I have always paid for the meals from
working as a Big Issue seller.

Now I must say I did celebrate
by doing ‘Pies and Cokes’ for 5 homeless people in 2 days already. One thing I
do know and that’s, my calling is to help people in need when they need it most
and one thing that’s for sure, I couldn’t have done it over the last 2 days
without Kitty's help because I didn’t make enough money to do
so.

So please when you think I do a
lot of good for the homeless please think of people with a huge heart like
Kitty Art Because I do.

Now I know a lot of you know
about my BBQ’s for the homeless and people in need. But just in case I’m going
to recap on what we do, because I need help.

Homeless and people in need
come to the BBQ event were all the food and drinks are free and there’s tables
and tables of clothes, toiletries, kids toys, blankets/sleeping bags and much
more are given free with only one condition and that’s “If they can carry it
it’s free”

Here at these events it’s the
community coming together to help, I ask thousands of people to donate clothes
and everything needed for it. So when I say it’s the community coming together
to help I’m right because it’s where I get everything.

Now the benefits of this event
is we get clothes and everything needed to help the homeless while looking for
the ones that want to get on their feet. That’s when I do my best work because
I’ll help someone get on their feet with everything I have or can get hold
of.

But I guess one of the most
important things about these BBQ’s is you have working people sitting down
eating and talking to a homeless person eating and both chatting. Trust me when
I say some rubs off and the homeless starts to really feel more a part of
society. Well that’s be aim.

Next
event:

Musgrave Park

2nd of
December10am to 2pm

Now to mention a minor problem.
These BBQ’s are getting a lot bigger than before and even though we have Dalton
Hospitality helping with cost we need around $1500 more to pay for more food and
drinks. I guess 1000 homeless eat and drink a lot. Ha ha. Now I must say I
thought of asking one or two people to try and pay this than I thought why
should one or two people pay so much when there’s so many people willing to help
and feel good that they are doing something so great.

So I’m thinking if 30 people
donate $50 then we will have the $1500 needed and it’ll be even more like the
community is coming together to help. Now I know $50 is a lot of money but
really look what we are going to do with it.

There’s even more of a need for
people to come on the day and help out now because there’s going to be that many
more homeless.

Now I have a donation button on
this blog if easier, but please mention that your donation is for BBQ. I work
the city most weekdays at Post Office Square on Queens St if people want to hand
to me or on the 30th of Nov I’m collecting whatever clothes,
toiletries, blankets/sleeping bags, tin food, anything people want to donate and
of course money for the extra food and things that come up on the
day.

I’d like to thank everyone for
reading this blog and I hope you all have a great day, remember on the
2nd of Dec at Musgrave Park there’s a great BBQ to help people in
need when they need it most. So please come and help out on the day and show the
community coming together.

I would like to add that any
monies left over will be going towards getting a Christmas Ball which we will
put a homeless person’s name on it and hand out on the day.

About Me

Hi I Grant the polite guy. I'm a big issue vendor that sells mags in the city. I spend most of my time saying "Have a nice day" to people that walk pass. I would see thousands of people a day and see alot of things that I am happy to share with you. If you stand in one spot long enough you'll see the world come to you.
I hope you enjoy the stories and have a nice day.